First choice would be for David to evaporate the News-Events-Politics forum. There are vast numbers of online & other media for that. But I fear he will not - so the other option is for all of us to not post there at all. Seeing as though you have been the OP on a fair share of sociopolitical contr...

Greetings SDC, What we have on this forum are people with such fundamentally different modes of operation that disunity is just a matter of fact, and that lack of commonality is grounds enough for some to settle for blood when knowledge does not seem viable. Yes, "Dhamma of the Theravada" is the th...

One thing that I used to really enjoy about this forum was that we seemed to have ordinary members here who wielded as much or more influence than the staff, almost solely based on their knowledge of Dhamma. Sadly that is no longer what carries any weight around here - at all. The most impressive a...

One thing that I used to really enjoy about this forum was that we seemed to have ordinary members here who wielded as much or more influence than the staff, almost solely based on their knowledge of Dhamma. Sadly that is no longer what carries any weight around here - at all. The most impressive at...

Okay, I'll put it this way: Why would someone who is interested in changing their gender/sex be interested in Buddhism? Can someone who is interested in changing their gender/sex be considered as being interested in Buddhism? I think most people seek out Buddhism in order to learn how to be more ca...

Transitioning, like anything else, is an act that can be carried out wholesomely or unwholesomely. So there is no need to find any specific language in the suttas in order to garner any specific support for it as a "right" choice of lifestyle. In some cases, not necessarily here, it diminishes the b...

What are you referring to by "public displays such as this"? I created a Topic. This is a forum. I am not following what you are trying to say to me. Can you be explicit? It is so funny that every time someone makes their intentions clear through consistencies in their speech, they act so surprised...

... Do you know what makes your efforts typical? That you, like so many others, assume public activism will affect change. All it does is break down the community. Everything you are doing here is a carbon copy of someone else's previous efforts to take the forum in one direction or another. Truth ...

Therefore, one might conclude that it is not that 2+2=4, but rather that "2" and "2" would not exist in the first place if it were not for the 4 superimposing itself on them and therefore the whole equation is meaningless as far as significance is concerned. So you're on the right track, but not ex...

I am telling you will all my honesty that after so much time of reading about Nanananda on DW or STC, after so many long topics, 20+ in the past on both forums, I still have no idea what he believes. I still don't know how it is different than Nanavira. It is always people criticizing him and other...

2. d. Unsubstantiated allegations against individuals or traditions - including psychoanalyzing other members , and predictions or threats of kammic retribution e. Disruptive meta-discussion (i.e. discussion about discussion) f. Ad-hominem attacks, including the vilification of individuals based on...

Maybe you have not read the topic too well. It is SDC that sent it offtopic with this message: https://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&p=442491#p442479 Moving the discussion from existentialism and solipsism to why am I criticizing existentialism and weather I want to start a revolution or somet...

Why the need for a revolution ? People criticize different ideas on buddhist forums all the time, people debate things all the time. There is no need for any revolution. It's just the normal stuff that has been going on since forever. It just so happens that for the last 3 days, I happened to criti...

Do you realize the primacy you grant these ideas by constantly trying to criticize them? You and you alone gave them the name "existential Buddhist". All that was ever said in the slogan for Path Press is "an existential approach...". You started calling it a sect when barely anyone follows these i...

It's hard to fit a kilometer of the modern exisitentialist buddhist sect ideas into them no matter how hard we might try. If you know more suttas about the existence of things that you feel can be twisted other than those 2 please let me know. Do you realize the primacy you grant these ideas by con...

Nanavira is so esteemed in the Theravada Buddhist world. and here I am reading the thoughts of a thoroughly respected monk who'd rather die than be seen in public with an ugly old woman. I don't think this is the case. I think most Theravadans have never heard of him. ... So i wouldn't see his view...